Zach Galifianakis walks up to the driver's side of a FedEx truck and, pretending it's his, pulls out a key. Then he leads me to a beat-up 1997 Subaru station wagon. This is not a joke. It's his car. I don't know exactly how much he got paid for The Hangover Part II, the new sequel to the highest-grossing R-rated comedy of all time. But if it was more than $500, he can afford a better car. ...

We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames. But sometimes freedom and opportunity slip in through the back door, when a quieter subversion of the status quo unleashes change that is just as ...

Was it a suicide or an accident? Authorities investigating the death of DJ AM have found that he had eight undigested OxyContin pills in his stomach and a ninth in his mouth, a law enforcement source told PEOPLE. The finding suggests that DJ AM -- real name Adam Goldstein -- swallowed the powerful painkillers quickly. "He wanted to die," said the source, who said the suicide theory is supported by the pills and other evidence. "He was going unconscious when ...

The forthcoming trial in Germany of John Demjanjuk could be the last occasion on which a Nazi war crimes suspect faces prosecution. But the legacy of decades-old efforts to bring the perpetrators of World War II atrocities to justice means that those who commit similar offences in the 21st century will not be able to hide from their past so easily, according to a leading war crimes prosecutor. Many leading Nazis such as Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess and Albert Speer ...

Overnight singing sensation Susan Boyle says she's overwhelmed by the attention coming her way through millions of views on YouTube. "I'm gobsmacked, absolutely gobsmacked," she told CNN Friday morning. The 47-year-old shocked and inspired the audience, judges and Web watchers after she powered through "I Dreamed a Dream" from the musical "Les Miserables" on the TV show "Britain's Got Talent." A clip of Boyle's performance had more than 15 million views on YouTube by Friday, and the world's media have ...

Close readers may have wondered how Octuplet Mom Nadya Suleman was able to manage multiple pregnancies and the resulting child rearing while suffering from a back injury so serious that she has been unable to return to work and collected $167,000 in workers compensation in recent years. But to doctors in clinical practice, the realities behind her story are all too familiar. Cases like hers, in clinical research, make for difficult findings; emotional and ethical issues have always marked the ...